Is minnesotapbs.org safe?
http://minnesotapbs.org/
Minnesota PBS is a public television portal with no scam or malware behavior found
minnesotapbs.org is the streaming and information site for Minnesota PBS, the new name of Twin Cities PBS after it added KSMQ on September 1, 2026. News coverage of the rebrand matches the site's own branding, technical checks are clean, and the only money flows are voluntary donations and a membership contribution. That supports a Safe score.
At a glance
Saved with this scan, at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026); each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
1.8 years old
Registered Jan 8, 2025Expires Jan 8, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 18, 2027 (64 days after the check)Hosting
United States (US)
Cloudflare, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
0/93
Saved antivirus result from Oct 11, 2026: no detections across 58 enginesSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 14, 2026
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 90/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo antivirus detections, no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS and a clean hosting IP.
- SupportsNews outlets independently report the Twin Cities PBS to Minnesota PBS rebrand, matching the site's identity.
- SupportsFCC public-file links for the three stations match a licensed public broadcaster.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 674 days old, about 1 year 10 months
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Checked on
How we checked
Coverage: strong · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
minnesotapbs.org is the streaming and information site for Minnesota PBS, the new name of Twin Cities PBS after it added KSMQ on September 1, 2026. News coverage of the rebrand matches the site's own branding, technical checks are clean, and the only money flows are voluntary donations and a membership contribution. That supports a Safe score.
Who runs the site and what it offers
The page calls itself 'We are Minnesota PBS' and describes a public media organization focused on journalism, kids' programming, arts, culture and history. Independent reports from ABC 6 News, KIMT and TVTechnology confirm that Twin Cities PBS became Minnesota PBS on September 1, 2026 with the addition of KSMQ.
The page links to FCC public files for KTCA-TV, KTCI-TV and KSMQ-TV and mentions Minnesota's Legacy Amendment arts funding, both normal disclosures for a licensed public broadcaster. A screenshot review shows a header with the Minnesota PBS logo, TV schedule, login and a Donate button, plus a video hero and show grid, not a checkout or sign-in lure.
Technical checks and operator risk
A multi-engine malware scan analysis from 34 days ago found 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines. The browser threat feed shows no warning, the TLS certificate is valid, and the hosting IP has an abuse score of 0.
The site's own pages do not offer products, free trials or withdrawals. The domain is about 1 year 10 months old, consistent with a domain registered for the newer brand. The page was too long to read to the end, so footer contact details and the legal entity name were not reviewed, and the donation form's recurring-billing terms were not inspected.
What visitors encounter
The 'Donate Today' button leads to e.tpt.org, a donation page on the affiliated tpt.org domain. A membership offer asks for $5 or more a month to unlock PBS Passport, and a newsletter signup stays on the site's own e.minnesotapbs.org subdomain. These are voluntary contribution and email-signup flows, not merchant checkouts.
Pressing 'Watch' on the hero video stayed on the site and led to a show page. No off-site redirect, popup, download or notification prompt was observed.
Ages and dates in this analysis are at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026).
Why the score is 90
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from October 11, 2026
No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
- Clean58
- Undetected35
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy
- Googlemedia_and_entertainment
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows the 'Minnesota PBS' logo with the PBS circle-head mark, alongside search, 'TV Schedule', 'Login', a magenta 'Donate' button and a 'Menu' toggle. Hero area displays a video still of a basketball court with 'UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MORRIS COUGARS' wall branding and the large title 'Medicine Ball' with a white 'Watch' button. Video player controls (mute and pause) and carousel dots are visible at the bottom of the hero, indicating an embedded media player rather than a checkout or form. Below the hero, a teal content band begins with card thumbnails, consistent with a show/content grid layout.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows the 'Minnesota PBS' logo with the PBS circle-head mark, alongside search, 'TV Schedule', 'Login', a magenta 'Donate' button and a 'Menu' toggle.
- 02
Hero area displays a video still of a basketball court with 'UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MORRIS COUGARS' wall branding and the large title 'Medicine Ball' with a white 'Watch' button.
- 03
Video player controls (mute and pause) and carousel dots are visible at the bottom of the hero, indicating an embedded media player rather than a checkout or form.
- 04
Below the hero, a teal content band begins with card thumbnails, consistent with a show/content grid layout.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 3
- Other hosts contacted
- 13
Where the page went
- First loadminnesotapbs.orgSame site
- On its ownminnesotapbs.orgSame site
- After a test clickminnesotapbs.orgSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
- Play button
Watch
Opened a page on the same site
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Minnesota PBS – Watch Now
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Minnesota PBS – Watch Now
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
Web research findings
Independent findings for minnesotapbs.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- ABC 6 News (KAAL-TV)open
"PBS member station KSMQ-TV will join Twin Cities PBS on Sept. 1 as both organizations rebrand under the name Minnesota PBS"
- KIMT News 3open
"Twin Cities PBS will become Minnesota PBS on September 1 with the addition of KSMQ, extending regional and national PBS programming to nearly 350,000 new viewers in Austin, Rochester, Winona and throughout seven southern Minnesota counties."
- TVTechnologyopen
"Twin Cities PBS will become Minnesota PBS on September 1, 2026, with the addition of KSMQ."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainminnesotapbs.org
- Redirects tominnesotapbs.org
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesxtproirhzlwkzvnyaavv.supabase.co · pagead2.googlesyndication.comand 12 more
Domain Timeline
- Jan 8, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.8 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 14, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 92% of the registration period had passed
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 28% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for minnesotapbs.org.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google AdSense
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Ads
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://minnesotapbs.org/
- 2200https://minnesotapbs.org/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
Advertising7
- ad.doubleclick.netcontacted
- ep1.adtrafficquality.googlecontacted
- ep2.adtrafficquality.googlecontacted
- googleads.g.doubleclick.netcontacted
- pagead2.googlesyndication.comin pagecontacted
- securepubads.g.doubleclick.netin pagecontacted
- stats.g.doubleclick.netcontacted
Analytics & tracking3
- analytics.google.comcontacted
- connect.facebook.netcontacted
- googletagmanager.comin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts1
- image.pbs.orgin pagecontacted
Platform & social6
- facebook.comin page
- google.comcontacted
- instagram.comin page
- linkedin.comin page
- tiktok.comin page
- youtube.comin page
Other / unknown5
- e.tpt.orgin page
- legacy.mn.govin page
- publicfiles.fcc.govin page
- threads.comin page
- xtproirhzlwkzvnyaavv.supabase.coin pagecontacted
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | reused · analysed Oct 11, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessreused · analysed Oct 11, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is minnesotapbs.org legit and safe?
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Could a legitimate site like minnesotapbs.org still be used in a scam?
Has minnesotapbs.org been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is minnesotapbs.org on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Minnesota PBS is a public television portal with no scam or malware behavior found
minnesotapbs.org is the streaming and information site for Minnesota PBS, the new name of Twin Cities PBS after it added KSMQ on September 1, 2026. News coverage of the rebrand matches the site's own branding, technical checks are clean, and the only money flows are voluntary donations and a membership contribution. That supports a Safe score.
09 · Community
Community
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